skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a small memorial (to the Poles) at Bletchley Park. I went there on purpose once to see it, and unfortunately I didn't have time to go find it again when I was there earlier this year, but it's a memorial so they won't have removed it.

The (recreation of the) machine for breaking wartime Enigma is now in the Computer History museum, rather than the main Bletchley Park museum (they're on the same site but open on different days - check before travelling!), which is slightly incongruous as it's just not a computer. The museum also has several machines which are each arguably the first computer or an early computer (it depends on what in your opinion distinguishes a computer and how hard you're willing to squint at your definition) including (again a reconstruction of) Colossus, which was built for Bletchley to attack the actual interesting cryptography of the war, Lorenz - not Engima and W.I.T.C.H (the Harwell computer) but the choice to put the reconstructed Bombe in that museum is a bit weird.
It's disinformation according to the Government though, which is the same thing happening here with Israel, isn't it?

Do you believe Al Jazeera is spreading misinformation? Even if Israel says so? Even if the USA starts saying so as well?

I don't know where we can draw a line here.
So I guess it's not a great idea to make broad sweeping claims based off your own personal experience.
Can Qatari media call for the government to be ousted?
Can Israeli media call for the government to be ousted?

Answer these two questions and you'll be able to answer your own question.
Far too many eyeballs witnessing the "conflict" now - and with Elon buying Twitter-X, the censorship-suppression-narrative control apparatus has a massive hole in it now.

#ZeroIsASpecialNumber
Actually, ansible is a prolog. I played around with marelle[1] a bit for managing my Mac configuration and I realized that the core of the typical configuration management tool just is a prolog: it gathers facts from the systems you have, compares them with a desired state you’ve specified declaratively and executes a plan to get from the current state to the specified one. Prolog does the planning more or less “for free” because of its evaluation model.

[1]: https://github.com/larsyencken/marelle
Yeap, that's all fair. I was mainly poking at your word choice of "phenomenon" because it can be reasoned. I'm not quite sure about your last sentence but that's an entirely different discussion with much more noise than signal to parse through.
Quitaversary
I’d love to see whether you could tease out heart rate and respiration from this data. If you already wear an Apple Watch or Fitbit, that data is continually collected. Shoving everything into a time series model with enough samples might do the trick.
I remember liking it when I found the app.

But then I had to use the web interface to do anything with filters, so when I had to reinstall Windows I didn't bother configuring it again. And now everything is on Teams anyway.
The only justification would be if they are broadcasting government secrets.

Clearly they're not doing that, just criticizing the government.

The obvious next step is outlawing any speech criticizing the government (or rather 'speech that is a threat to national security'), then you've got the same laws as in Russia.
Yup ITAR/EAR follows the specific item/technology. You can get in major trouble even if you never interacted with a US counterpart at any point in the supply chain in this way.

It might seem draconic, but it's to plug a very easy loophole that can be exploited, and people actually do try to exploit when they don't understand exactly to what the regulations apply to.
I agree with that line of thought too, but one side is sort of represented a terrorist organization who have the ability to murder 1200 people and kidnap others while the other is a western democracy that has the ability kill 30k people as collateral damage level. The collateral damage is so high but people like Sam Harris is saying Israel is engaging in a restrained manner compared to other powers previous retaliatory actions to terrorism.
Yes it's a problem; that's why I've started to use the "this isn't an art project" line, because some people really do seem to treat it as such.
Sure and not to discredit your observation, but what other observations have you made in the last 5 years that didn’t pan out? Regarding politics, sports, stock market, covid, or other tech trends? The evaluation can’t be looking back, and if you’re right about 1/10 things, would that warrant a $1b investment in each?
It is unlikely that reliable numbers will come out of Gaza with the media blackout and two sides who both want to present information "favorably"

At least until the war has subsided and independent orgs can gain access.
I don't feel good about this at all, but please keep in mind that there is still serious independent journalism in Israel. And it's doing very well. For example I can recommend pretty much anything published by Haaretz, or Barak Ravid. We should monitor the health of their domestic media should things start going un-democratic there. After all nothing can replace domestic media, this is painfully clear in the case of Russia.
I don't think the person you are answering to is referring to IQ tests.

Do you often have proper IQ tests when navigating in the academic sector? I personally never have one.

On top of that, I'm not sure IQ tests themselves are really relevant to select people in the academic sector. They already have demonstrated they master their subject with their grades, so we already know they are smart enough, and it is not because someone score higher in an IQ test that this person will be more valuable for the academic sector, where collaboration and mentoring are as valuable as the holywood cliché of the genius solving all the problems. IQ does not tell much about laziness or motivation or willingness to follow the good scientific process, ...

Also, at this level, you are selecting people amongst a set of candidates that are all already very very close in IQ, to the point that choosing on IQ alone is not making scientific sense: if the IQ questions would have been randomly different, or if they would have passed the test a different day, the scores would have been slightly different and the selection would have been different. The scores would not have been totally different, of course, but slightly different, and because the candidates are all very close, it would have changed the winner.

For having been part of it, the selection process in the academic sector is very very very difficult and is very very prone to unconscious bias. When you have 5 very good candidates and you need to pick one, how do you decide? At the end, it is very often "on feeling": "for this person, I feel they will be a good match". It's a fair way of choosing, because choosing someone that you "don't feel it" over someone that you "feel it" is just very counter-intuitive. But it means that between two persons, it is often the one that "looks superficially the best for the job" that gets it, which is easily affected by unconscious bias (for example, you will "feel it" more easily with someone of your own culture), or can easily be gamed (for example, to progress, you need to build a professional network and manage your reputation, and some very good candidates are just not interested to play these silly games).
The BBC is also headquartered in the UK, and is funded by the government. Thad doesn’t automatically make the BBC “The propaganda arm” of the UK.

This submission is about Al Jazeeras operations in Israel—which is supposed to have press freedom. Israel raided and closed the Israel operations, and banned Al Jazeera’s journalists from operating in Israel.

All that said, I’m not sure you last point goes without saying. There is nothing which fundamentally prevents receiving funding from a country which suppresses press freedom, which prevents you from doing free journalism. Will receiving funding cause editorial bias? Sure, but if receiving funding automatically made you a propaganda arm for the entity funding you, then you should really question whether western media is a propaganda arm for free market capitalism, or if Hacker News was a propaganda arm for venture capitalist Y Combinator.
Retention laws are neutral towards technical protocols. They apply to instant messaging and electronic chats just the same.
yes, hoard before it is put behind a paywall or removed.
I'm not a fan of Al Jazeera myself but this sets a very bad precedent. Israel is winning the war but they are being very short sighted among the decisions they are making.
Home assist looks good, but my requirements was that my elderly relative was being monitored by all my family (ie they're not on my home wifi/lan) hence the data on the movement needed to be on the internet for all to see
Thanks very much! I haven't watched this yet, but this was exactly the kind of honest discussion I was looking for that I didn't previously find, so much appreciated.
So what?

There are just so many great programmers in the world.

If you’re confident it’s not just your mental issues talking (like narcissism, self hate etc) - identity your weaknesses and work on them.

This is a huge step towards a great programmers category.
DEI is prejudice squared. Individuals are stuffed into tight racial and gender boxes in a big bout of social engineering. It is better than stuffing them into boxcars and deporting them, but ultimately the logic behind those treatments is the same. You are not John Doe, you are White or Black or whatever, a Lego brick that can be replaced by another Lego brick of the same color and the bureaucratic system will be happy.

If you want to address racism, throw away the entire neo-racist stuff that now passes for enlightened and start again. "Whiteness" et al. belong to the same heap of historical refuse as "Judeobolshevism" or "degenerate art".

I can't think of a better way to deepen and perpetuate absurd divisions among people than the identity obsession and pseudo-quotas that the modern American progressive movement is pushing.
BG is a shrewd, cutthroat businessman on top of having a tech background. I think he's far different from L&S in that respect. But yeah it helps he hasn't disengaged as well.
The long long tail of AI applications
Austria,
Belgium,
Bulgaria,
Cyprus,
Czech Republic,
Germany,
Denmark,
Estonia,
Spain,
Finland,
France,
United Kingdom,
Greece,
Croatia,
Hungary,
Ireland,
Italy,
Lithuania,
Luxembourg,
Latvia,
Malta,
Netherlands,
Poland,
Portugal,
Romania,
Sweden,
Slovenia,
Slovakia,
Is there any german festival that isn't a big drinking one?

Better saufen than some of the history:

https://www.ndr.de/geschichte/chronologie/kriegsende/20-Apri...

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendeanlagen_auf_dem_Brocken#A...
We definitely did block or at least make them less available, as I recall prior to the invasion RT was commonly on when walking into a hotel room or in Youtube recommendation lists. Post invasion in US I never see it in any hotels or recommended on Youtube... was it censored or maybe just wildly boycotted, not sure... but seems appropriate as a response to me
Propaganda is a tool of war.
Eh, it's effectively the same thing.

If Israel could force the sale of Al Jazeera to Israeli businesses I'm sure it's content would become far more acceptable to the Israeli government.
It is definitely not consistently rated (by who?) as neutral or reliable.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/al-jazeera/ - Rated "mixed" on "factual" reporting, i.e. some facts, some lies... i.e. rates as propaganda.

EDIT: "and Mixed for factual reporting due to failed fact checks that were not corrected and misleading extreme editorial bias that favors Qatar."

EDIT2: https://uscpublicdiplomacy.org/blog/al-jazeera-%E2%80%98defe...
It’s worthwhile learning the history of intervention in this conflict by the US and UK. It’s not just two groups fighting amongst themselves. It’s western governments putting their thumbs on the scales to massively help one side destroy the other. The Hundred Years War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi is an excellent book on the subject with a good audiobook on audible. It’s remarkable how one sided this conflict has been with western support since the beginning.
OpenDTU is an open source project using an ESP32+CMT2300A for talking to Hoymiles Micro-Inverters. Local Only.
I don't know how to interpret the front page saying "More than 100 journalists killed in six months in Gaza" directly above a "real time" abuse barometer saying that 12 journalists have been killed worldwide in 2024.
You can't assign homework any more. I was never into them anyway.

One clumsy candidate accidentally revealed his cards by pasting the prompt he'd used in our chat window, like that paper whose introduction began "Certainly, here is a possible introduction to your topic." https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/1beaqya/obvious_chat...

Another was unable to explain why his code was structured the way it was. I asked a multipart question that required refactoring, knowing that these tools are not good at that, or enforcing a consistent style. His initial code was a self-contained class and the refactor introduced a function outside of the class that also should have been a method. I asked him why he did that and, of course, he froze.
Legacy makes a lot of sense from an admissions standpoint. Having rich/connected peers is the main point of harvard for everyone else applying. I think what people have a problem with with DEI is that it largely seems counter to their goals of maximizing prestige and career success of graduates.
What this shows, IMO, is that quite a lot of the expected output is almost literally present in the training data.
I'm in the anti-dairy camp. I feel like big dairy has weird controls over our society. Seeing school kids drink mediocre milk every day because it's integrated into their lunches is weird, especially when many of them say things that suggest they're lactose intolerant.

Some highlights I liked:

> Today, drinking milk can get you “milk-shamed” by people who think it’s disgusting. It’s particularly unpopular with younger people, who are grossed out by the milk served in schools.

> In rural areas that once thrived on milk production, such as upstate New York, abandoned small farms are now overgrown with trees, DuPuis observed. “Are we going to end up with fewer farms and more trees because of this latest problem? I can imagine so,” she said.
It was a very strange day yesterday: the whole week coverage had been building up to a meeting in Cairo, Hamas signalled they were going to accept the cease fire.

Saturday AM EST, it was reported that Hamas confirmed they were going to accept the deal. By noon Saturday EST, the "Israel-Hamas War"...idk what to call it, live blog? collection-of-news headline?...was gone for the first time in months.

Israel reporting (not just Haaretz) reported huge, multiple, protests (it was at night there, early afternoon EST) due to Israel rejecting a cease fire. Piecing it together from Twitter natsec people, standard blob, certainly not polarized against israel, Israel didn't even send a delegation to the talks, and the far right Israeli leader said Bibi promised him they wouldn't accept "a rushed deal" (i.e. the cease fire), and people were irate. An irate Israeli TV reporter revealed the anonymous "diplomatic source" promising no deal Friday night was Bibi himself.

The blogs are back up now, with a sort of hurried framing that the talks fell apart because Hamas wanted a permanent cease fire (no mention of any of the above -- I assume that'd complicate it too much for, it needs to be a nice little set piece of Israel vs. Hamas.

It's really, really strange watching the coverage the last week, in America, without any attachment to either "side". I guess its easier to push the A vs. B framing on a new subject, our college kids, rather than trying to explain how any of this makes any sense at all.
What is worrying is what it’ll mean for the access to the West Bank and Gaza, as they’re currently the only international media outlet on the field, and are documenting various atrocities that are currently being looked at by the ICJ.
The tweet that is linked in the web page is from the former managing editor of Al Jazeera. You can just click on the tweet directly and use Google translate.
Sunday Rant
> Israel is routinely held up to a far far higher standard than any other country

Is it held to a higher standard than countries America provides arms to? (Genuine question.)

Note: I'm not saying we haven't provided arms to horrible regimes. But it's loudly criticised. Rightly or wrongly, we hold ourselves and our allies to a higher standard than e.g. Iran, China or Russia. It's partly why we have so many more of them.
It’s a great question. I suggest reading up on what democracy really means in the modern world:

https://chomsky.info/consent01/
I’m more surprised he doesn’t seem to know basic comma rules.
> Banning them from the EU was certainly in our interest.

but you had no say in the matter; so if a future ban is not in your interest, what will you do?

no, the government should not stifle the market of ideas. that is not in our interest in the long run.
So instead of providing a way for anyone to install it, they should convince every single distro to add it to their package manager?
It is very difficult for management to over time not change the rules on promotion enough that it tends towards a random walk where your level is approximately proportional to your length of service. Also,in at least the places I have worked, the enormous emphasis on individual performance both detracts from looking at group performance, i.e. actual productivity, and sucks up so much time. Copying from what execs have heard about Google they have promo boards, overly defined level descriptions, endless work of writing and rewriting promo packets, tactical discussions on which VPs need to be impressed independently of the merits or scope of a change, etc. There is a clear incentive to help people in a sister org over helping your team accomplish its goals.

The whole system seems destined to be replaced by something more useful.
Reminds me before the 2008 financial crisis you used to hear finance types and economists crowing about financial innovation. After that they've been more quiet. But they never exactly came out and said what it was. I can tell you it's about efficiently collecting rents. Being able to pick people pocket faster and cheaper so you can pick more pockets. That isn't most people think of when they hear the word innovation.

(Edgy comment over).

(Less edgy comment begins)

The finance share of the US economy went from 4% 50 years to 17% today. It feels likely that there are been zero or less than zero benefit over all from that.

Everyone has a internet connected doorbell now. 50 Yeah ago my parents never locked their front door.

Lots of complexity that seems to provide no overall value.
Ansible is great, but using YAML still bugs me. Would just be a lot easier with HCL (Hashicorp) or something else.
It's not a "cycle of violence" - "both sides" scenario for anyone who has actually put in the effort to study the history in detail.

Since you brought up the "cycle of violence" argument, I remember Shaun making an excellent video[1] on the topic and also addressing that specific talking point.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xottY-7m3k&t=10s
I’ve got some Sengled E1C-NB7 plugs that I really like. The form factor is nice, they work perfectly with Zigbee2MQTT and Home Assistant, and they’ve got a power button on the device itself.

I want to buy more and they don’t seem to be available anymore.
Is Qatar a belligerent in the war? Belarus has allowed Russia to use their territory as a point from which to launch both ground assaults and missiles into Ukraine. Hard to say the same about Qatar and Hamas. If Al Jazeera were an Iranian publication the comparison might be more similar.

Israeli news reports and analysts say Qatar has sent more than $1 billion to Gaza over the past decade.

Qatar sent that aid through fuel to the Gaza Strip's Hamas government, which in turn sold it and paid partial salaries. In the past, the money was sent via suitcases stuffed with cash.

Israel allowed these transfers to Hamas. Supporters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu say the payments his government approved helped keep the status quo in the Gaza Strip and Hamas from escalating attacks on Israel.

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/02/1210110109/qatar-israel-gaza-...
I’m glad that MIT is standing up for an evidence based approach to all this, as they did with reinstating the SAT. Skin color differences don’t make organizations or schools better or worse: https://econjwatch.org/File+download/1296/GreenHandMar2024.p.... (Lack of diversity, of course, may be evidence of underlying race-based discrimination.) It was an idea that was developed in response to Supreme Court cases that prohibited using express racial quotas to eliminate the effects of past discrimination. So there was a need to come up with a different rationale for racial rebalancing.
Many people would say “genocide in gaza” is exactly what the television should be saying.
Please don't spread these false assurances.

Yes, the probability of being attacked is less but it is a false sense of security. Nowadays, you download loads of code from the internet just by navigating to a website using the web browser. Are you 100% sure there is no bug in the sandbox? How about all the other protocols on your computer, or all the other computers on the same "internal" network. Are you sure, those are 100% resistant too?
nice, I like the simple approach. My old meter only had a rotating disc and it took all my effort to get a sensor connected to my arduino that could detect the black mark on the edge of the disc. There was just enough mem for a http service to allow me to pull that value into my iobridge for remote monitoring.
What's clickbaity about it? The title is literally what we're doing: we're flying planes in MSFS using an autopilot that we're (progressively) writing ourselves, using JS.
Al-Jazeera propaganda/free press sites are also available in Israel
Hard to disagree!
The United States right of free speech is uniquely strong. That's why we're all just sitting here acting completely blase about bad faith propaganda destroying us.
https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps

Third graph.
It wouldn’t be C++ if it didn’t make everything unnecessarily complicated.
> The lanugage in the article is full of ‘this was an unavoidable tragedy’, though i think it’s obvious a local city engineer ought to be held criminally liable for their neglect.

> Because not only was it entirely preventable, it was also statistically inevitable. Not putting bollards where they need to be is like not only not wearing a seatbelt when driving, but arguing that seatbelts should not be available in cars because usually they’re not needed

This is 100% correct. A woman in Portland here was killed when a street racer plowed into a bus stop. The racer lived and the woman died. The racer got 36 months. Totally preventable.

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/crime/portland-street-racer...
Ask HN: Are You Training a Model?
I am curious to know if any of you people are training a model to do a specific task or solve a specific problem at hand.
Could you please name one or two of such universities? I am a EU citizen and I literally never heard of this. I am aware that in some regions in some of our countries you might end up with a racist professor etc., but never heard you can be excluded based on name.

That's simply illegal.